ONE ARREST IN ALAVERDI SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST MINOR
Larisa Paremuzyan
hetq
13:20, April 12, 2012
In a sexual assault case involving a minor that took place on March
19 in the northern Armenian town of Alaverdi, one person has been
arrested and another is being sought by law enforcement.
Tumanyan municipal police have arrested Alaverdi resident Aramo
Avetyan on charges of committing a violent sexual assault against a
minor. In this case, the victim was a 17 year-old girl from the Lori
village of Akori.
Police told Hetq that they have identified Avetyan’s accomplice and
are now searching for him. The second attacker is said not to be a
citizen of Armenia.
Tumanyan Investigative Division Chief Rudolph Stepanyan said that
20 year-old Avetyan had once been found guilty of assaulting someone
with a knife and causing serious injury. He never served any jail time.
Chief Stepanyan assumes that it was because Avetyan was a minor at
the time.
The police investigator told Hetq that a medical forensic examination
has revealed that rape wasn’t committed against the girl.